The brief
Cup profile, grind, format, volume and the market you sell into, agreed before a single bag is bought.
Written spec · agreed both sides
Trade correspondent · London · Addis Ababa
Kaffa Bridge · Ethiopian specialty coffee
Green, private label and white label
100% Ethiopian coffee. Ethiopian farmers. The birthplace of arabica.
Single-origin lots from Yirgacheffe, Sidama, Guji and Limu. Every exporter vetted, every lot documented, every cupping scored at origin. Ready as green, as samples, or as finished coffee in your own brand.
4.5M
Smallholder farmers
$3B
2025/26 export record
12+
Growing regions
UK registered
Q-graded at origin
Lot traceable
Amharic spoken
A trade correspondent. Not a broker, not a platform.
We sit between Ethiopian exporters and the buyers who should know them, and we put everything in writing.
- We know
- Which lots are real, who grew them, how they cup and who should buy them. It goes in the ledger before it goes in an email. No adjective travels without a score sheet.
- We represent
- Vetted exporters, washing stations and cooperative unions. On green coffee each stays the exporter of record, and we are paid to open their market, not to sit in the middle of it.
- We serve
- Specialty roasters, green importers, café groups, hotel procurement and resellers across the Gulf, Europe and beyond. Buyers who want coffee they can stand behind, with the paperwork to prove it.
Three ways in.
Start where the risk is lowest and move up when the coffee earns it. Most buyers begin with a sample and end with their own brand on the bag.
Service 01
Green coffee sourcing
We shortlist real lots against your brief from exporters we have vetted, hand you the documentation behind each one, and stay with it through shipment.
Send a brief Service 02Origin samples
Cup the lot on your own bench before you commit to anything. Money back in full if it is not right for you, credited to your first order if it is.
Request a sample Service 03Private label & white label
Sourced, graded, cupped, roasted, branded and packed. You end up with an Ethiopian coffee brand that is yours, wherever in the world you sell it.
See how it works
Private label & white label
Your brand on the bag. Our ledger behind it.
Cafés, roasters, hotels and resellers anywhere in the world can carry their own Ethiopian coffee. We find the lot, grade and cup it at origin, roast it, put your name on it and send it to you.
Your logoYour designYour brand
The lot
We shortlist real lots from vetted exporters against your brief, and hand you the ledger entry behind each one.
Vetted exporters · documented lots
The cupping
Graded and cupped by Q-graders at our origin lab. You receive the signed score sheet, not an adjective.
Q-graded at origin · score sheet signed
The roast
Sample roasts go back and forth until the profile is yours. Then it is locked, and it repeats batch after batch.
Sample roasts · profile locked
The brand
Identity, artwork and packaging built for the market you sell in, carrying the label detail your customs authority will ask for.
Artwork · label compliance
The delivery
Roasted, packed, sealed and freighted, with the full export document set travelling alongside it.
Freight booked · documents complete
Roasted at origin
The coffee is finished before it leaves Ethiopia. Roasted and packed in Addis Ababa, then flown out, so it reaches your counter days off the roaster and the value stays where the coffee grew.
- Roasted and packed in Ethiopia
- Q-graded before it is roasted
- Air freight, days not weeks
- Value retained at origin
Roasted in your market
For larger programmes we ship the green and roast it with a contract roaster in your own market, under your brand and to the same locked profile.
- Ethiopian green, sea freight
- Contract roasting in market
- Built for larger volumes
- Same lot, same documentation
Commissioned by the buyer
Your own eyes on the container.
A broker asks you to take their word for it. Any shipment we handle can instead travel instrumented, recording where it is, how warm it got and how wet the air became, from the washing station to your warehouse door. You commission it, the data comes to you, and it comes unedited.
Prevention, specified
Most transit damage is condensation, not theft. Before the container is sealed we specify the defence: hermetic liners inside the jute, calcium chloride desiccant sized to the load, moisture and water activity confirmed at origin.
Hermetic liner · desiccant · moisture checked
The container, instrumented
Sensors travel with the cargo and on the door. Position, temperature, humidity and every opening, recorded continuously for the whole voyage rather than sampled at each end.
Location · temperature · humidity · door events
The record, handed over
You receive the complete curve for the voyage alongside the export documents. Evidence you can put behind a quality claim, an insurance dispute, or your own incoming QC file.
Full voyage curve · yours to keep
Live where it matters most
The road corridor from Addis Ababa to Djibouti is where most of the damage happens, and it is also where the network reaches. You watch the container move, and an alert lands while there is still time to act.
- Live position, Addis to Djibouti
- Port handling at both ends
- Humidity alerts while intervention is possible
- Unauthorised door openings flagged
Recorded, with no pretending
There is no cellular network in the middle of an ocean and we will not tell you otherwise. The device keeps writing to its own memory the entire crossing, then uploads the complete voyage the moment it reaches coverage at the destination port.
- Continuous on-board recording
- No gaps in the finished dataset
- Full upload on arrival
- Satellite reporting available on request
Independent by construction. This is commissioned per container and quoted per shipment, by you, not by the exporter. The readings go to the buyer who paid for them, unedited, and we will run it on lots we did not source for you just as readily as on lots we did.
The record, on the record.
Ethiopian coffee is having its strongest year on record. A ledger notes what is, not what is assumed.
$3B
Export earnings in 2025/26, a national record
$7,500
Average export price per ton, up from $6,000
4.5M
Smallholder farmers growing over 90% of the crop
$6B
The national export target set for 2031
Saudi Arabia, Germany and China led the destinations in 2025/26
ለኢትዮጵያ ላኪዎች · For Ethiopian exporters
እርስዎ ላኪነቶን ይቀጥሉ።
እኛ ገበያውን እንከፍታለን።
You stay the exporter and you keep every relationship. We become your sales and marketing arm in the Gulf and Europe: a buyer-ready profile of your lots, qualified roasters and importers contacted on your behalf, and representation in the rooms you cannot be in. Write to us from Addis. We answer in Amharic.
The Origin Ledger.
A public record of Ethiopian coffee, entry by entry. Regions, process, trade and culture, replacing assumption with useful detail.
Entry N° 001
ቡና. Coffee was born here.
Kaffa · the origin Entry N° 002Ethiopia's biggest coffee year ever: $3B.
The record Entry N° 003Washed and natural. One fruit, two philosophies.
Processing Entry N° 005What specialty green actually costs.
The numbers Entry N° 009What G1 actually means.
Grading Entry N° 010Every “FOB Djibouti” carries a 900 km journey.
LogisticsTell us what you are looking for.
“Ten specific letters beat a hundred generic ones.”
Send the brief and we will come back with the lots that actually fit it, or with a route to your own brand. If we are not the right people for it, we will say so.
No commitment
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Worldwide
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